Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

by Kevin DeYoung

Ask God for pure motives.

Ask God that He would help you be honest about who you are and that you might know the other person for who she really is.

Dump your list of the seventeen things you need in a wife and make yourself a list of seventeen things you need to be as a husband.

it’s a problem I put squarely at the feet of young men whose immaturity, passivity, and indecision are pushing their hormones to the limits of self-control, delaying the growing-up process, and forcing countless numbers of young women to spend lots of time and money pursuing a career (which is not necessarily wrong) when they would rather be getting married and having children.

it is your commitment to marriage that safeguards the affection.

The Spirit is stronger than our timidity and wiser than our foolishness.

But instead of “letting go and letting God,” we need to make every effort to grow up in our faith (2 Peter 1:5ff).

He worked hard, took chances, showed constant initiative, and, by his own account, lived a pretty fulfilled life—all without searching desperately for fulfillment.

our passion for God is often nothing more than a passion to have God make our search for vanity a successful one.

God gives His children the will to walk in His ways—not by revealing a series of next steps cloaked in shadows, but by giving us a heart to delight in His law.

Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus.